Roxel vs VoxelDream

Roxel is a free, open-source desktop voxel editor for hobbyists and indie creators, available for Windows and macOS. Its tools include brush, erase, recolor, eyedrop, select, move, and shape drawing. Rectangles, ellipses, and lines can be drawn on a build plane or extruded into 3D forms. An open-world grid allows painting across X/Z and upward as far as memory permits. Roxel includes built-in palettes, user palette management, and Adobe Swatch Exchange import and export. It opens MagicaVoxel .vox, Qubicle .qb, and Goxel .gox files, and exports .vox, .gox, .obj, .fbx, .glb, .png, and .svg. Projects use the .rox format; the maker says .glb exports are ready for Unity and Godot. Light, Dark, and System themes include customizable canvas and floor colors. The MIT license permits use, forks, and building on the project. Its itch.io page marks it in development and lists version 0.7.1 downloads. The maker says macOS builds are self-signed and not notarized, and Windows builds are unsigned.

VoxelDream is a free macOS voxel-based 3D creation tool for building, editing, and exporting game-ready assets. Voxel Mode changes voxels directly, while World Mode arranges multiple assets with transforms, hierarchy, and editable pivots. Modeling tools cover freehand drawing, geometric shapes, stairs, selection, filling, painting, erasing, and color picking. Projects save as .voxproj files, preserving editable voxel sources for later work. The tool imports VVOX assets and PNG, JPEG, WebP, or BMP images, converting images into editable voxel content. Materials include solid-color voxels and Minecraft blocks. Exports include FBX for Unity, Unreal, Godot, Blender, and other workflows, Minecraft Add-On packages for supported Bedrock use, and PNG renders. Animation, texture painting, scene editing, and game-engine export are listed. It is free for personal and commercial use, subject to imported-source rights. Version v0.1.3-beta.1 has macOS arm64 and x86_64 builds.